Wow! We have 250 “guests” for the September 27 Kaleidoscope Cultural Arts Festival and more than 4,000 invitations sent out! Thanks for everyone’s support! And don’t forget to keep inviting your friends, via the event invite, share the status, tell your friends and try to bring out as many people as possible. We want to make sure have a great crowd so these artists keep wanting to come back again and again!

You might have missed Yard Art Day which was on Monday/Labor Day and had residents all over the Charlotte area putting art in their front yard in effort to celebrate the arts and spark conversations in communities.

Kaleidoscope Cultural Arts Festival returns to downtown Kannapolis, N.C. from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 31. The festival is free to attend and free to set up as an artist if you register at mknox@modernfilmzine.com

Marty DeJarnette is a Kannapolis based musician who performs solo acts and works with the local Fuzzbucket Music Company, which performed for the Cabarrus Arts Council at the Davis Theatre in Concord in December. He will be one of the performers at the April 26 Kaleidoscope Cultural Arts Fest which will be held from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. in downtown Kannapolis. Visit www.KannapolisArts.com for more information or find their Kannapolis Arts page on Facebook.